Lizards are the most diverse group of reptiles, with more than 4,000 known species in the world, and the geckos and chameleons I know as well are all lizards. Today to introduce to you is the world's only Australian spiny lizard unique to Australia, this guy is not ordinary, looks extremely strange, there are many people in the country who want to raise it, are scared off by its price, it is said that there is no five or six figures can not get it.
Australian spiny lizard, also known as the "devil lizard" because of its spiny scales, is a unique Australian desert lizard, the body length of about 21 cm, the most recognizable is that it has two particularly large spines on its head, may be the first time to see its people will not be able to distinguish between the head and tail, will wonder why it has such a large two balls on its butt.
Although the Australian spiny lizard is known as the "magic lizard", it is indeed a completely harmless animal, which is why many pet lovers favor it, even if you find a way to buy the Australian spiny lizard, but it is extremely difficult to raise it, because it only eats ants.
Due to the extreme lack of water in the desert, the Australian spiny lizard drinking water is also very different, whenever night falls, the hot desert during the day becomes extremely cold, the water vapor scattered in the air forms dew after contacting the body of the Australian spiny lizard, accumulating into more, the spiny lizard has thousands of small grooves on the skin, adsorbs water beads throughout the body, and uses its long tongue to continuously lick the body, drinking enough water to maintain a day's worth of water.
The spiny scales on the body of the Australian spiny lizard are not long play, but as an adaptation to the environment, just as the cactus turns its leaves into hard thorns to prevent water loss, and the skin of the Australian spiny lizard is also evolved to prevent water loss.
Being called "magic lizard" is not a vain name, although the Australian spiny lizard does not change color according to the environment like the chameleon, but it can also show red, yellow and brown colors to hide itself according to environmental changes, and the color of the desert is basically these three.
As mentioned earlier, the Australian spiny lizard feeds on ants, sticks its mucus-filled tongue into the nest, sticks the ants and then swallows, no word can eat up to 1800 black ants, so if you want to raise the Australian spiny lizard, you have to need a huge ant kingdom, which is extremely luxurious.